• Take temperature, pulse, and respiration on all species
• Administer oral medication -- balling gun and stomach tube (except equine)
• Collect blood samples
• perform bandaging
• Give injections (IM, IV, subcutaneous)
• Place and maintain an indwelling catheter
• perform Twitching and basic restraint
• perform Tail wraps
• perform Leg wraps
• perform Basic handling
• Tie Knots: quick release, clove hitch, tail tie, bowline
• Collect lab samples - urine, skin scraping
• Hobble mare
• Take history
• Place mouth speculum
• Do EKG's
• perform Hock, eye, and knee wraps
• Determine age
• perform Breed identification
• Restrain and handle all species
• perform Equipment care and repair
• perform CMT's
• Collect sterile milk samples
• perform Rope work
• Grooming patients
• Clean feet

Large Animal Operating Room:

• Use proper procedure for a surgical scrub, donning a surgery gown aseptically using closed cuff gloving
• perform surgical site
• perform Post-surgical clean-up
• Set up all equipment for surgery (i.e., electrocautery units, suction unit, surgery lights)
• Function as scrubbed-in assistant and set up a surgery table with instruments
• perform open gloving with and without surgery gown
• Bandage wounds
• perform local/regional anesthetic techniques
• Organize and keep sterile material on a rotation system keeping a standard sterile shelf life
• Keep an active inventory of supplies

Large Animal Anesthesia:

• perform pre-surgical work-up
• Position and pad surgical patient
• Pass endotracheal tube in the equine and ruminants
• Assist with induction of general anesthesia
• Obtain and interpret blood gases
• Operate anesthetic machine
• Monitor parameters of anesthesia
• Insert arterial catheters and monitor blood pressure
• Care of anesthesia machine
• ECG monitoring hook-up
• Equipment maintenance
• Respect asepsis
• Provide intensive aftercare
• Insert venous catheters
• Food animal local anesthesia

Small Animal Medicine:

• Use stomach tubes and enemas
• perform skin scrapings
• Prepare, administer or dispense medications, drugs and vaccines (all routes) under vet's supervision
• Understand importance of cleanliness of person, work area, and equipment maintenance
• Collect and prepare blood, urine, and feces for submission to lab
• Appreciate proper labeling and dating of drugs
• Stock routinely used supplies
• Obtain perform TPR, weight, vomition, urination, defecation, appetite data
• Run ECG
• Identify external parasites
• Recognize and report emergency conditions
• Take vaginal smears for estrus determination
• Venipunctures
• Make initial general exam
• Calculate proper rates and administer IV fluids
• Groom (baths, dips, nail trims)
• perform Cystocentesis
• Establish rapport and identify breeds
• Restrain patients
• perform First aid for emergencies
• perform hydrotherapy, physical and inhalation therapy
• Remove and apply bandages
• Express anal sacs
• Place jugular catheters
• perform Dental prophylaxis
• perform needle biopsies
• Calculate IV fluid rates and administration
• Collect canine semen

Small Animal Operating Room:

• Set up surgery
• Set up IV
• Know instruments
• Use working knowledge of aseptic techniques
• Restore cleanliness and order to operating area
• Organize instruments in operating theater
• Know safety rules
• Proper care of used scalpel blade
• Proper positioning of animal
• Ground animal when cautery is used
• Check label 3 times when setting up IV and/or adding meds
• Dedication to patient care
• Anticipate needs for surgery
• perform Surgical scrub, gowning and gloving
• Function in an emergency situation
• Inventory supplies
• Function with minimal supervision

Small Animal Anesthesia and Intensive Care:

• Make IV Injections
• perform Endotracheal intubation
• Induce with barbiturates, thio-barbiturates, and mask induction
• Place IV catheters
• Monitor depth of anesthesia
• Prepare and administer pre-anesthetic medications
• Use esophageal stethoscope
• Administer and monitor IV fluids
• Care and maintain of anesthetic machines and equipment
• Use of inhalant anesthetic (halothane and isoflurane)
• Know emergency procedures (CPR)
• Use muscle relaxants
• Use EKG and BP monitoring devices
• Administer adequate ventilation to patients during thoracic surgery
• Use balanced anesthesia techniques
• Place arterial catheters
• Use mechanical respirators
• Administer oxygen therapy

Central Supply and Sterilization:

• Know instruments and proper packaging and wrapping techniques
• Use knowledge of sterilization methods and procedures
• Properly store of sterile supplies and use knowledge of shelf life
• Safety: proper disposal of sharp objects
• Set up an inventory control system, ordering and storage of equipment & supplies
• Operate autoclave, ETO sterilizer, and H202

Clinical Pathology:

• Process samples to be run
• Use dipstick chemistries on urine and perform specific gravity
• Make and stain blood smears using Wrights and Diff-Quick
• perform cell counting: RBC's and WBC's using unopette & Platelet counts using unopette
• perform Hemoglobin (Spencer)
• Normal differentials
• perform Abnormal differentials including RBC morphology and platelet estimation
• perform Micro hematocrit
• perform Total protein (refractometer)
• perform Fibrinogens (heat ppt)
• perform Urine sediment examination
• perform Reticulocyte counts
• perform Cell counting using QBC
• perform Pipetting techniques
• Use in-office instrument for chemistries
• Maintain quality control program in hematology and chemistries
• perform analysis of spinal and other body fluids

Diagnostic Imaging:

• Position patients for thorax and abdomen radiography
• Determine exposures (technique)
• Minimize radiation hazard to operator and patients
• Recognize technical failures and correct them
• Maintain equipment
• perform common contrast media studies, e.g., barium swallow, cystograms
• Mix processing solution
• perform hand processing and use automatic processor
• Use topographical landmarks for positioning
• Develop a technique chart for practitioner's X-ray machine
• Develop a film filing system
• Assist in all radiographic procedures
• Do special views other than routine
• Identify and determine contrast media usage and dosage
• Recognize technical failures and correct them
• Prepare patient for ultrasound

Pharmacy:

• Make proper interpretation of DVM's written prescription, including commonly used Latin abbreviations
• Read and interpret of medical labels and dates of administration
• Prepare medicines for dispensing with proper labeling
• Know proper prescription composition if intended for submission at a "human" pharmacy
• Calculate dose levels and make dilutions
• Have basic familiarity with medications and usage
• Compound preparations, e.g., ointments, liquids, etc.
• Set up inventory control, ordering, and receiving system
• Counsel clients on proper use and administration of medications